Publicité
?A journey from Rose-Belle to Bundu?
Goorooduth Chuttoo aussi connu comme Ustad Rajah, raconte dans A journey from Rose-Belle to Bundu, un livre qu?il vient de publier sur son voyage au Bihar.
En voici un extrait : ?In the nineteenth century and the earlier twentieth century, as the abolition of slavery progressed around the world, european colonies found themselves in great need of manpower for their plantations .. . This pressure on the resources of the country, combined with a colonial masters? demand for cheap and abundunt labour, led to the migration of a large number of migrant labourers from Bihar.They were lured by tales told to them that there existed an island called MARISIAH (Mauritius) in the middle of the Indian Ocean where gold could be found under rocks.They did not find any gold when turning the stones in the fields of Mauritius. However their sweat and blood did turn into solid gold?.
Publicité
Publicité
Les plus récents